Uranian

天王星人

发音

UK /jʊˈɹeɪnɪən/
US /jʊˈɹeɪniən/

词形变化

Uranians 复数 more Uranian 比较级 most Uranian 最高级

别名

Ouranian

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A male homosexual; also, a pederast; a man engaged in an erotic relationship with an adolescent boy.

    古体 文学
  2. 1.

    An inhabitant of the planet Uranus.

    天王星人

    媒体
adj.
  1. 1.

    Celestial, heavenly; uranic.

    文学 诗歌
  2. 2.

    Homosexual; also, pederastic; relating to a man's erotic love for adolescent boys; (specifically) of poetry: conveying appreciation for young men.

    古体 文学
  3. 3.

    Of Aphrodite Urania, the heavenly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the earthly aspect known as Aphrodite Pandemos: heavenly, spiritual.

    宗教 神话 哲学
  4. 4.

    Relating to Urania, the Muse of astronomy.

    过时 宗教 神话 哲学
  5. 5.

    Of or pertaining to astronomy; astronomical.

    历史 罕用 引申义
  6. 1.

    Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus.

    天文

词源

From Latin Ūrania (“muse of astronomy in Greek mythology”) + -an (suffix forming agent nouns). Ūrania is derived from Ancient Greek Οὐρᾰνῐ́ᾱ (Ourănĭ́ā, “muse of astronomy”), from οὐράνιος (ouránios, “of or relating to the sky, celestial, heavenly”) (from οὐρανός (ouranós, “the sky; heaven, home of the gods; the universe”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers- (“rain”)) + -ιος (-ios, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘pertaining to’). The alternative form Ouranian is derived from Ancient Greek οὐράνιος (ouránios). Adjective sense 2 (“homosexual”) and the noun sense (“a homosexual”) refer to Plato’s work Symposium (c. 385–370 B.C.E.), where the goddess Aphrodite, in her heavenly aspect Aphrodite Urania (see adjective sense 3) is described as inspiring a noble form of affection between older and younger men. Compare German Urning (“a homosexual, Uranian”), Urnigtum (“homosexuality”), also referring to Aphrodite Urania, coined by the German writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–1895) in 1864. By the 1900s, the use of the word in this sense had largely been supplanted by homosexual (see further at that entry). The term is no longer mainstream and is almost never used in modern contexts, though it has enjoyed a slight revival as a term for "gay man" as an analogue to lesbian.

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